Abdul Rahim Wardak

Abdul Rahim Wardak (born 1945) was the Minister of Defense of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2012, succeeding Mohammed Fahim and preceding Bismillah Khan Mohammadi.

Biography
Wardak was born to a Muslim Pashtun family in Wardak Province, Afghanistan, and in the 1980s he commanded the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union. In 2004, having supported the Northern Alliance in the Afghan Civil War, he became the Minister of Defense of the new Northern Alliance-led government of Afghanistan under President Hamid Karzai. His counsel was regularly sought by both the Afghan government and their NATO-ISAF allies, until his replacement by Bismilliah Khan Mohammadi.